As she kills the flies, Gloria asks for mercy, then sprays an insecticide that sticks to the walls for weeks.…

That story you’ll never tell is the house on the street in every Seventies horror movie you devoured in the…

The summer I babysat the Brady twins, their parents were on the brink of divorce. My parents were on the…

Sundance Lee draped his old snagging blanket around his shoulders. It hadn’t snagged anyone for many years. His legs were…

First it was the little porcelain dogs with green glass eyes. Each one in various uniforms. A policeman bulldog, a…

And because the house was filled with comfortable things, you wondered. As your wife slept under the perfect thread count,…

One morning, as I stood at the bus stop waiting for the 7:05, my neighbor, Horowitz, drove over my left…

She begins each morning by peeling the dead skin off her lips. Sometimes, she feels like she is shucking corn…

I drove to the county hospital to pick up my mother. She was not as I suspected. They handed her…

The pretty cowgirl’s mouth is wild with tameless laughter, and the tassels on her calfskin miniskirt and waistcoat dance to…